Concerted AI campaign in the paper on these widespread crow attacks upon the populace, which have necessitated a return to the former sharp shooting, shortly to be resumed. Trapping & poison had not been working. Some years ago the authorities had desisted with the earlier measure, after an exponent had deployed a shotgun and wayward pellets caused alarm (a possible shrapnel wounding too). Chap concerned had been a foreign national, whose accreditation, safe practices cert, &etc. had lapsed. Promptly fined, jailed & deported. In the pic in today’s S. T. a poor woman had a long, coloured strand of hair cruelly plucked and pulled upright, in an almost vertical line. Not lifted off her feet, but had the bird managed to gather a few more strands it may have proved tricky. An online video on CNA featured another innocent, hapless victim, caught kinda unawares/half-expectant from behind. Got some curry to go on with the poor sod. Various other examples had been displayed in the last few days, making for an open & shut case. Complaints of urban warfare through the housing blocks were ready to be met with strongest argument and plentiful dramatic evidence. In the current period, however, after all the terrible troubles, the restored measures might not play so well among some groups. Nerves were frayed, on edge. The horrors were unrelenting. Ill-legal feeding of pigeons had continued in the Malay quarter and no doubt elsewhere, despite the threat of harsh fines & incarceration. Armed men now on the hunt, massacring the intelligent, glossy black birdies might not pass so easily, not pass without resistance; revolts in the heartlands were not outta the question. Politically it may turn out quite dicey. But the authorities had certainly prepared themselves.
Singapore 2011-26
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